Chapter 434: Settling in the Plains
Counting the troops that were added later, the cavalry that followed Li Ce on this expedition, not counting the elven knights and centaurs, totaled a hundred cavalry! A real human cavalry team of a hundred cavalry.
Now that it is running wildly, it is full of power and its lethality should not be underestimated.
The defensive phalanx composed of green lizard infantry had basically no resistance in front of the Great Zhou's Hundred Cavalry. In the blink of an eye, it was torn to pieces and the scene was in chaos.
The cavalry units that move back and forth on the battlefield can only be contained by the same cavalry units. Ordinary troops cannot keep up with the mobility and will only be beaten if they go there.
However, in order to encircle and suppress the Centaurs, the velociraptors on their defense line also suffered heavy casualties. Now, the number of remaining velociraptors is less than a hundred.
Under this premise, such vast and flat plain terrain could not maximize the flexibility advantage of the dragoons, but instead exposed their shortcomings in endurance and speed when facing conventional cavalry.
After all, the Lizardmen themselves are not that good at fighting in plains. Complex environments like the rainforest are their home ground.
At the moment, there is a high probability that they will not be able to defend this plain.
When Soros thought of this, he began to feel like giving up.
But if he turned around and left with the dragoons now, the infantry troops with poor mobility would most likely be left here.
This won’t do!
You know, once the battlefield is transferred to the rainforest area, these green lizard infantrymen who seem vulnerable in the plains will become their irreplaceable main force!
Even considering the battle after retreating, he had to save as many green lizard infantry as possible.
With this idea in mind, Soros began to command the velociraptors to contain the opposing cavalry.
During this process, the Raptors will inevitably suffer further losses, but there is nothing that can be done about it. For the sake of his next move and to be able to hold on later, this has become a necessary sacrifice.
Although the speed of the green lizard infantry cannot be compared with that of four-legged war horses, they are definitely flexible and swift among the known two-legged infantry units.
Under the cover of the dragoons, a large number of green lizard infantrymen scattered like birds and beasts and evacuated the battlefield as quickly as possible.
After the green lizard infantry retreated, the velociraptors who received the signal began to evacuate.
The cavalry unit led by Zhou Chongshan launched a pursuit to expand the results of the battle, but they did not chase too far.
At this stage, cavalry units are their core combat force.
After the cavalry troops come out, they are followed by the crossbow troops and logistics troops, and these troops all need protection.
After all, they are not familiar enough with this world. If they insist on long-distance pursuit and neglect the protection of the rear troops, and the rear troops are attacked and destroyed, it will be like having their fuel cut off. It will be a question whether they can survive the days to come.
The most important task at the moment is to occupy this piece of land and let their troops gain a foothold here. If this cannot be done, there will be no way to talk about the future. So when Li Ce saw that the situation was almost there, he sounded the horn to withdraw his troops.
Military orders are as heavy as mountains. After confirming the signal to withdraw, Zhou Chongshan and Silke and their men retreated decisively.
Soros, who had already hidden in the rainforest area at that time, watched the withdrawing cavalry from afar. He did not feel any relief, but instead felt more pressure.
Under his command, the green lizard infantry turned around and launched an ambush after fleeing into the rainforest area.
If the cavalry on the other side had rushed into the rainforest area, he could have relied on the green lizard infantry's advantage in complex environments to give them a heavy blow! Even if the enemy was just close to the rainforest area, he could have relied on the rainforest to attack with his spears and launched a counterattack against them without restraint.
But the other party didn't.
A cautious enemy is more difficult to deal with than anything else.
But it's no use continuing to worry about this problem now.
Soros let out a long breath and looked at the backs of the enemy cavalry leaving in the distance. According to this situation, the enemy's next step would be to set up camp at the edge of the world, and there would be no further action in the short term.
Thinking of this, Soros quickly issued several orders, explained and arranged the next tasks here, and asked his adjutant to stay here to watch. Then he rode a velociraptor and prepared to rush to the temple to report the latest situation to the high priest.
Inside the temple, the high priest frowned after listening to the report. Judging from the military situation presented in Soros' report, it was very different from what Gruul had reported before.
According to Gruul's report at the time, the other side did not have an armed force of this scale!
However, this also indirectly explains why Soros has repeatedly suffered setbacks here.
Because the strength of the enemy before them was far beyond their previous understanding.
Thinking of this, the high priest calmed down and accepted the current result calmly.
On the one hand, Soros has made it very clear that the plains are not suitable for their lizardmen to fight, and his defense focus is on the periphery of the rainforest area.
Under this premise, in order to preserve limited military forces, we chose to retreat in a timely manner.
It was reasonable and well-founded, and he approved it.
As for the other reason, it was because he was indeed clear about Soros's abilities, but at the same time he was also aware that the troops here were limited and Soros could not exert his full power at all, and he expressed his understanding of this.
In this way, the high priest now has only one request for the situation here, that is to stabilize! Firmly defend the rainforest defense line here, and don't let the people from the opposite world easily advance and threaten their territory.
At the same time, on the plains at the edge of the world, Li Ce and his group, who had just arrived, were setting up their camp here as quickly as possible.
There was nothing interesting to see in this plain area. At first glance, everything looked the same and there was nothing special to pick out. Therefore, Li Ce and his team just found a relatively flat piece of land and settled down.
"Tsk! What an eyesore!"
Looking up at the figure flying high in the sky, Drogo, who was patrolling outside the camp, cursed in dissatisfaction.
Needless to say, the one who just flew through the air was none other than the Lizardman's pterosaur rider.
They already knew that the other side had flying troops, so they naturally recognized them at the first moment, but they were helpless against them.
Because the other party was flying high in the sky the whole time and did not lower its altitude at all.
Obviously, the death of the previous pterosaur rider has made the lizardmen extremely alert.
The only thing the Pterosaur Rider has to do now is to serve as their aerial vision unit and keep an eye on the opponent's every move.
As for other things...
Don't do it! Even if you encounter any tempting opportunities, ignore them all. Just fly in the sky honestly and don't take any risks! (End of this chapter)
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